Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano; March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. He is considered by many as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets of all time...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth31 March 1914
CityMexico City, Mexico
CountryMexico
solitude facts
Solitude is the profoundest fact
democracy chimera democracy-freedom
Without democracy freedom is a chimera
art uprising people
Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.
art criticism age
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
love success mutual-help
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
confused yesterday space
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.
stars giants phrases
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken?
beauty art games
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
art passion light
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? To learn the art of remaining motionless amid the agitation of the whirlwind, to learn to remain still and to be as transparent as this fixed light amid the frantic branches this may be a program for life.
love-is sight firsts
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
past thinking our-society
Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.
love-is revelations persons
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
men able myth
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
names two yesterday
...because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source. There is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of two in a single body, a single soul, oh total being...